Built for audit teams at Big-4, regional, and small-firm CPA practices. Convert client-provided bank statements, vendor invoices, GL trial balances, and prior-period financial statements into Excel for analytical review, sample testing, and audit-trail workpapers.
Audit fieldwork generates massive document load: client bank statements (12 months × multiple accounts), vendor invoices for sample testing (often 60-100 randomly-selected invoices per AP cycle), customer invoices and AR confirmations, GL trial balance exports, prior-period financial statements for trend analysis, payroll register reports for completeness testing. Almost all arrive as PDFs from the client — and almost all need to be transcribed into Excel for the workpaper.
Senior auditors typing sample-test data into workpapers is the unfortunate reality at every firm size. Junior staff spend the first 6 months of their career on PDF-to-spreadsheet work. Productivity loss is real — but engagement margins make every hour matter.
PDFExcel reads the audit document stack. Bank statements with running balance for analytical review. Vendor invoices for AP sample testing. GL trial balances for completeness and substantive testing. Prior-period financial statements for trend analysis and reasonableness review. Payroll register reports for headcount + wage testing.
Built-in OCR handles the inevitable scanned client copies. Drop the export into PCAOB / AICPA-style workpaper templates, into your firm's audit-management software (CCH ProSystem fx Engagement, CaseWare IDEA, Sage Audit), or into ad-hoc analytical-review spreadsheets. Document-trail metadata (filename, page count, processing date) preserved for audit evidence.
Trained on real audit-engagement documents — not generic PDFs. The model knows that GL trial balance exports need every account preserved (including zero-balance accounts for completeness testing) and that bank statements need running balance for analytical procedures.
Most audit-software tools focus on workpaper management, not document extraction. PDFExcel handles the document-to-data layer that workpaper tools assume happens magically — and works alongside CCH, CaseWare, and Sage Audit.
60-invoice random sample with audit-trail metadata. Tickmark column for engagement-team annotations. Variance vs prior period if running comparative testing.
| # | Vendor | Invoice # | Date | Amount | GL Account | Tickmark | Tested By |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acme Office Supply | INV-48217 | 03/04/2025 | $1,533.60 | 6500 - Office | ✓ | JS |
| 2 | Northbridge Logistics | NB-2025-441 | 03/06/2025 | $2,890.00 | 5400 - Freight | ✓ | JS |
| 3 | Helix Software Inc. | 2025-3-718 | 03/15/2025 | $4,200.00 | 6100 - Software | ✓ ® | MK |
| 4 | Cascade Print Co. | CPC-9981 | 03/12/2025 | $340.74 | 6200 - Marketing | ✓ | JS |
| 5 | Apex Freight Forwarders | AFF-77612 | 03/18/2025 | $8,940.50 | 5400 - Freight | ✓ ⊙ | MK |
Big-4 senior associates pulling fieldwork sample data, regional firm in-charges managing 8-10 engagements per busy season, small-firm partners running quick reviews and compilations.
60 vendor invoices selected for sample testing. Convert all 60 as one batch, build the workpaper sample table with vendor + date + amount + GL account in 30 minutes vs 3 hours of typing. More time for actual control testing.
5 audit engagements running concurrently in busy season. Standardize document extraction on PDFExcel for the team — junior staff onboard in days because the workflow is consistent across engagements regardless of client industry.
Quick review of a small-business client's annual financials. Convert the prior-period financials + GL trial balance + bank statements as one batch, run analytical review in an afternoon instead of 3 days.
10 documents per month, free, forever. Off-season audits or single small engagements often fit in Starter ($69, 50 docs). For busy-season fieldwork-heavy practice, Pro ($199, 200 docs) and Business ($699, 1,000 docs) cover most firms. No annual contract — pause/resume monthly with engagement load.
Yes. CSV exports drop into all three via standard import paths. Most firms set up a saved import mapping per workpaper type and reuse it across engagements. No direct API integration — by design, keeps the tool simple and works regardless of which workpaper system the firm uses.
Yes. Source filename, source page number, and extraction date are preserved as columns in every export. Useful for audit evidence — every workpaper row traces back to its source document.
Files are encrypted in transit, processed in memory, and permanently deleted as soon as extraction completes. Never stored, never shared, never used to train AI. SOC 2 controls in progress for firm-level vendor reviews. For Big-4 / large-regional firm vendor security questionnaires, contact us for the security overview document.
Yes. Built-in OCR runs automatically when there's no embedded text layer. Client-provided scanned bank statements, faxed invoices, and historical paper documents all extract through the same workflow with the same quality.